Can Europe Create Peace?

The war in Ukraine has united the EU, but it is also brutally confronting us with very fundamental questions. It is a European war, and as such it lengthens the already long shadows of the violent twentieth century. What is our talk of “lasting peace” worth, when its intellectual foundations are being shaken, and our security is imperiled in the face of violence, displacement, and nuclear threat? Do European democracies need to arm themselves and confront external aggression, or do these policies undermine the EU’s aspiration as a peace project? 
Philipp Ther, Professor at the Institute for the History of East Central Europe (University of Vienna), Director of the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET).
Masha Gessen Russian-American writer, essayist and activist.
Karolina Wigura, sociologist at the University of Warsaw, historian of ideas and journalist.
Moderated by Eric Frey, Der Standard.
The discussion will be held in English.
Tickets are available through the website of Burgtheater Vienna.

This series of public morning debates brings leading politicians, scientists and intellectuals on to the stage of Vienna’s Burgtheater to discuss topical issues of political and social relevance. This long-standing event is a collaborative production of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Burgtheater, ERSTE Foundation and Austrian daily Der Standard.